Before her assignment in Heidelberg, she was Visiting Professor at Emory University in Atlanta. She has been Professor at the University of Delhi, India, and has held visiting professorial positions at the Universities of Vienna and Hannover in addition to research and teaching assignments at the Universities of Bielefeld, Halle a. d. Saale and Heidelberg. After graduating from the University of Delhi, she did her doctorate at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Abstract:We at the Heidelberg Centre of Transcultural Studies are now almost a decade into developing a transcultural perspective for the Humanities and the Social Sciences to challenge the monologic exclusivity that informs prevailing understandings of culture. This has helped to address a host of unanswered questions that confront research and teaching when they depend on disciplinary frameworks and institutional structures circumscribed by the modern nation-state. All things transcultural now have come to focus on uncovering and theorizing connections, networks, the porosity of boundaries and the multiplicity of identities. My talk will draw our attention to a fresh set of challenges to Transcultural Studies when we have to negotiate scales, find a matrix to map multiple narratives and a plausible method to differentiate between gradations of interrelatedness.